• bdonvrA
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    1 year ago

    In capitalism, what happens if I - an average citizen - refuses to work?

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      1 year ago

      Well you won’t be thrown in a work camp. You can beg, go to soup kitchens, go innawoods, do whatever.

      If you refuse to work in a communist country, they will make you work, or just execute you.

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      1 year ago

      Depends if he is smart enough to invest his money in a way that will allow him to live comfortably. In communism you are not allowed to do that.

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        1 year ago

        So do you think everyone- or at least the vast majority of people could do this all simultaneously? If they were all smart enough?

        Who then would work?

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          Average is never enough, you have to be above average in order to achieve that. (or extremely lucky, but that’s just that, an extreme). If the whole population was highly intelligent we would have achieved luxury space communism by now, but unfortunately that’s impossible to achieve just yet.

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            1 year ago

            So then are all working class persons just not smart enough, is that what you’re saying? That the small minority of people who can afford to not work are just better, while those who work could stop if only they were smarter?